Executive Producer
The movie tells the story of a restaurant owner (played by Duan Yihong) who's chased after the murderer of his son for seven years. On the way, he met a young man (played by Shi Pengyuan) with a complicated background. Amidst suspicion and temptation, the relationship between the two began moving in an unexpected direction.
In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world. China is opening up to the West and the students’ lives are a tangle of love stories and friendships, artistic research, ideals and ambitions brought about by new influences. Caught between tradition and modernity, they have to decide who they want to become.
Director
Yi Yi, a white-collar worker in a lattice room, and Ah Juan, a female worker in a garment factory, are separated by a wall in a Dongguan factory. They do not know each other, and seem to have no relationship with each other's fate, but because of the appearance of a "peacock", seems to have intersected. The two girls' souls meet and make their own answers to life on their own way to chase their ideals. The story is adapted from the song "Peacock" by the band Frog Pond, paying tribute to every woman who also carries ideals in the midst of the ordinary.
Producer
O aspirante a dançarino Samnang e sua família fazem parte de uma comunidade no Edifício Branco, um importante bloco de apartamentos e um marco cultural da capital cambojana. Suas vidas são subitamente destroçadas pela notícia da iminente demolição de sua casa para dar lugar a um novo empreendimento.
The closing film for 2021's Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival.
Co-Producer
A orquidófila escocesa Jessica Holland foi visitar a irmã em Bogotá. Certa manhã, ela é acordada por um estrondo. Esse som assustador atrapalha seu sono por dias, questionando sua identidade e a levando até estúdios de gravação e aldeias isoladas na selva na tentativa de encontrar sua fonte.
Director
In Close-Up, Jia explores the counterpart to the wide shot. Four elevated surveillance cameras scan a busy traffic intersection, capturing the steady stream of cars, bikes and pedestrians that cross it. Amid all that bustle and movement, a fifth camera with a long telephoto lens picks out one individual. A man with a bandaged hand. A wide shot changes into a close-up. Visitors have the freedom to choose their own context and focus. They can even tell the story of this man. HD video installation on 5 screens, colour, silent
Writer
Em maio de 2019, importantes escritores e acadêmicos chineses se reuniram em um vilarejo na província de Shanxi, na China —que, por acaso, é a província natal do diretor Jia Zhangke. As imagens desse evento literário iniciam uma narrativa em 18 capítulos que abrange a história da sociedade chinesa desde 1949. Essa história é contada por meio das memórias do falecido escritor e ativista Ma Feng e dos testemunhos de três grandes escritores: Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua e Liang Hong, nascidos nas décadas de 1950, 1960 e 1970, respectivamente. Eles falam sobre a vida e suas carreiras literárias, transformando o filme em uma trajetória espiritual dos últimos 70 anos do povo chinês.
Director
Em maio de 2019, importantes escritores e acadêmicos chineses se reuniram em um vilarejo na província de Shanxi, na China —que, por acaso, é a província natal do diretor Jia Zhangke. As imagens desse evento literário iniciam uma narrativa em 18 capítulos que abrange a história da sociedade chinesa desde 1949. Essa história é contada por meio das memórias do falecido escritor e ativista Ma Feng e dos testemunhos de três grandes escritores: Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua e Liang Hong, nascidos nas décadas de 1950, 1960 e 1970, respectivamente. Eles falam sobre a vida e suas carreiras literárias, transformando o filme em uma trajetória espiritual dos últimos 70 anos do povo chinês.
Executive Producer
An old Chinese woman visits Japan to find her missing daughter whom she adopted in post-WWII China. Her granddaughter and a retired Japanese policeman join her search.
One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut. A forerunner of the New Wave, Hui’s tumultuous, forty-year career is an unequivocal testimony to her unyielding dedication to filmmaking, and her expedition into the metamorphic city. This biopic probes into the acclaimed director’s idiosyncratic world, where we witness her rashness and goofiness, as well as her humanistic concerns for the everyday nobodies which make her films so moving.
Executive Producer
Self
Takeshi Kitano is an international icon. We know the actor, the multi-award-winning filmmaker, but many ignore his double personality: the crazy TV star, the street kid from Tokyo close to the Yakuza, and the political satirist who blasted taboos!
Can we dream of a better guide to introduce us to the cultural history of Japan?
Executive Producer
In A Song for You – a road movie and a music industry insider comedy, with lots of songs – young Ngawang leaves behind a nomadic existence on the Tibetan plateau for big city Lhasa nightclubs. His dream is to record an album and be heard around the country. Cutting an album costs money, which he doesn’t have. One day he meets a woman who looks just like his Loyiter, a talisman of the goddess of art and music. Impossible, says his father, as only the pure of heart meet her, only in their dreams. But, Ngawang perseveres. She takes him on a journey of discovery through life and love.
Producer
In A Song for You – a road movie and a music industry insider comedy, with lots of songs – young Ngawang leaves behind a nomadic existence on the Tibetan plateau for big city Lhasa nightclubs. His dream is to record an album and be heard around the country. Cutting an album costs money, which he doesn’t have. One day he meets a woman who looks just like his Loyiter, a talisman of the goddess of art and music. Impossible, says his father, as only the pure of heart meet her, only in their dreams. But, Ngawang perseveres. She takes him on a journey of discovery through life and love.
In 2003, Han Dong, a teenager who dropped out of high school, arrives at Beijing with a dream of becoming a journalist.
Executive Producer
In 2003, Han Dong, a teenager who dropped out of high school, arrives at Beijing with a dream of becoming a journalist.
Director
In "Spaces #2", 7 internationally acclaimed directors shot, after commissioning by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, a short film at home, making their own timely comment on the new reality that we live in. The project is inspired by the book "Species of Spaces" by the French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist, Georges Perec and the days of quarantine. The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space. The only outdoor areas that may be used are outdoor living spaces, such as the terrace, the garden, the balcony and the stairwell. "Visit" is Jia Zhangke's submission.
In "Spaces #2", 7 internationally acclaimed directors shot, after commissioning by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, a short film at home, making their own timely comment on the new reality that we live in. The project is inspired by the book "Species of Spaces" by the French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist, Georges Perec and the days of quarantine. The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space. The only outdoor areas that may be used are outdoor living spaces, such as the terrace, the garden, the balcony and the stairwell. "Visit" is Jia Zhangke's submission.
Executive Producer
A film director wanders the world alone after breaking up with her boyfriend, finally gaining inner peace.
Executive Producer
The 43rd edition screens Neighbors, with five segments about the theme “neighbors”: not only about physical proximity, but also about relationships. In Brazil, Olga is a 90-year-old black woman who lost her husband one year ago; her neighbors, who come from different parts of the world, interrupt her grief. In Russia, an employee tries so hard to please his boss that he becomes inconvenient. An Indian woman, with the help of her male friend, decides to learn how to drive, an uncommon practice for women in the country. In China, an elderly, owner of an old and decadent barbershop, argues with his son, who wants to change the business. In South Africa, a group of homeless fights for the right to housing.
Director
What gifts would your parents prepare when your Chinese New Year visit comes to an end? A film about the taste of home shot on iPhone XS.
Screenplay
Datong, China, 2001. Uma bela e jovem dançarina chamada Qiao (Zhao Tao) está apaixonada por Bin (Fan Liao), um mafioso local. Durante uma briga entre gangues rivais, ela dispara uma arma para proteger seu namorado. Mas isso lhe dá cinco anos de prisão. Após sua liberação, ela vai procurar Bin para tentar começar tudo de novo.
Director
Datong, China, 2001. Uma bela e jovem dançarina chamada Qiao (Zhao Tao) está apaixonada por Bin (Fan Liao), um mafioso local. Durante uma briga entre gangues rivais, ela dispara uma arma para proteger seu namorado. Mas isso lhe dá cinco anos de prisão. Após sua liberação, ela vai procurar Bin para tentar começar tudo de novo.
Production Executive
Um atrapalhado criador de porcos, uma determinada proprietária de salão de beleza, um ambicioso arquiteto expatriado e uma desiludida garota rica cruzam seus caminhos quando milhares de porcos mortos aparecem flutuando pelo rio em direção à moderna Xangai, na China. Baseado em fatos reais.
Director
A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an annual international relations conference held between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The collection—taking the concept of time as a unifying theme—depicts the economic, political, and social alienations and contradictions that create, compound, and structure issues as wide-ranging as poverty, class stratification, and homeless; familial distress; spousal abuse; and natural disaster.
Producer
Han Dong adapts his own 1998 novel, about a group of young poets accidentally caught up in an inexplicable dispute with local hoodlums and security guards.
Writer
Revive is one of five short films within the Jia Zhangke-produced omnibus film Where Has Time Gone? with contributions from each of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). In Jia’s segment, a Chinese couple in the ancient town of Pingyao attempts to breathe new life into their old love as they ponder having a second child. Pingyao, home to the film festival Jia has co-founded, is a highly picturesque UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Jia humorously plays with a very recent dilemma – the second child policy dates from only 2013 – in a setting itself forcibly revived from history.
Director
Revive is one of five short films within the Jia Zhangke-produced omnibus film Where Has Time Gone? with contributions from each of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). In Jia’s segment, a Chinese couple in the ancient town of Pingyao attempts to breathe new life into their old love as they ponder having a second child. Pingyao, home to the film festival Jia has co-founded, is a highly picturesque UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Jia humorously plays with a very recent dilemma – the second child policy dates from only 2013 – in a setting itself forcibly revived from history.
Executive Producer
Uma lebre é solta na floresta, um cachorro a persegue e um menino chora atrás deles, seu pai tentando alcançá-los. Minutos passam, a floresta cai em silêncio, e quando o menino volta ao quadro, algo mudou: ele agora fala com a voz de sua mãe morta.
Na China, três operários desempregados de Shanxi estão procurando um emprego. Após várias tentativas sem sucesso, sua última esperança é serem contratados em um parque de diversões surrealista.
Writer
Na China, três operários desempregados de Shanxi estão procurando um emprego. Após várias tentativas sem sucesso, sua última esperança é serem contratados em um parque de diversões surrealista.
Director
Na China, três operários desempregados de Shanxi estão procurando um emprego. Após várias tentativas sem sucesso, sua última esperança é serem contratados em um parque de diversões surrealista.
Screenplay
Uma história em três partes que se inicia no fim da década de 1990 e acompanha Tao, bela jovem da província de Shanxi que se vê dividida entre dois pretendentes, seus amigos de infância Zhang e Liangzi. Um é herdeiro de um posto de gasolina, enquanto o outro trabalha em uma mina de carvão, e as consequências da decisão da mulher reverberam em 2014 e 2025.
Director
Uma história em três partes que se inicia no fim da década de 1990 e acompanha Tao, bela jovem da província de Shanxi que se vê dividida entre dois pretendentes, seus amigos de infância Zhang e Liangzi. Um é herdeiro de um posto de gasolina, enquanto o outro trabalha em uma mina de carvão, e as consequências da decisão da mulher reverberam em 2014 e 2025.
Um cinema abandonado e em ruínas no interior da Paraíba é o cenário inicial de um filme sobre o cinema, que viaja nos depoimentos do romancista e dramaturgo Ariano Suassuna e de inúmeros cineastas.
Producer
A mongolian interpretation of Kafka's "The Castle".
Producer
Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous levels of air pollution. 'Smog Journeys' traces two families from two different backgrounds; one a mining family in Hebei province, and the other a trendy middle class family in Beijing. Both face a similar fate. Air pollution is one of China's most pressing environmental and health issues. Greenpeace calls for a shift from coal to clean renewable energy, as well as short term measures that better safeguard people's health.
Writer
Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous levels of air pollution. 'Smog Journeys' traces two families from two different backgrounds; one a mining family in Hebei province, and the other a trendy middle class family in Beijing. Both face a similar fate. Air pollution is one of China's most pressing environmental and health issues. Greenpeace calls for a shift from coal to clean renewable energy, as well as short term measures that better safeguard people's health.
Director
Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous levels of air pollution. 'Smog Journeys' traces two families from two different backgrounds; one a mining family in Hebei province, and the other a trendy middle class family in Beijing. Both face a similar fate. Air pollution is one of China's most pressing environmental and health issues. Greenpeace calls for a shift from coal to clean renewable energy, as well as short term measures that better safeguard people's health.
Self
Um retrato afetivo do chinês que, para muitos, se tornou um dos mais importantes cineastas de nosso tempo. Jia Zhangke volta aos locais onde rodou seus filmes, junto com seus atores, amigos e colaboradores, e relembra suas fontes de inspiração.
Self
With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cinema and to share it with the world. This engaging documentary looks at the movement's legacy.
Su Mi's Uncle
A road movie that follows three young men yearning after their ideals.
Executive Producer
O Longa relata quatro histórias, entre elas uma sobre uma trabalhadora sexual em um bordel de luxo, que refletem uma sociedade em plena mutação, na qual o capitalismo desenfreado gera uma grande desigualdade e uma colossal falta de humanidade.
Writer
O Longa relata quatro histórias, entre elas uma sobre uma trabalhadora sexual em um bordel de luxo, que refletem uma sociedade em plena mutação, na qual o capitalismo desenfreado gera uma grande desigualdade e uma colossal falta de humanidade.
Director
O Longa relata quatro histórias, entre elas uma sobre uma trabalhadora sexual em um bordel de luxo, que refletem uma sociedade em plena mutação, na qual o capitalismo desenfreado gera uma grande desigualdade e uma colossal falta de humanidade.
Director
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
Producer
Young Chinese parents Chen Xuesong and Cai Weihang find their marriage eroding as they deal with financial troubles, jealousy and constant bickering. When Weihang finds a photo of Xuesong and her ex-boyfriend, things spiral out of control.
Director
Um tributo às vítimas do terremoto Sismo que atingiu o japão no dia onze de março de 2011, onde mais de quinze mil pessoas morreram. Cada diretor convidado elaborou um curta-metragem de três minutos e onze segundos para expressar seus sentimentos em relação a tragédia que abalou o país.
Director
The film uses a documentary approach to tell the stories of 12 Chinese pioneers, chosen from the fields of business and the arts. The protagonists reflect upon their life journeys against the backdrop of modern China.
Producer
The film uses a documentary approach to tell the stories of 12 Chinese pioneers, chosen from the fields of business and the arts. The protagonists reflect upon their life journeys against the backdrop of modern China.
Director
Concentra-se nas pessoas, suas histórias e arquitetura que vão desde meados de 1800, quando Shanghai foi aberto como um porto comercial, até os dias atuais.
Screenplay
Concentra-se nas pessoas, suas histórias e arquitetura que vão desde meados de 1800, quando Shanghai foi aberto como um porto comercial, até os dias atuais.
Director
Jia Zhangke’s short for Modern Weekly’s special tenth anniversary issue.
Director
Short-movie form Stories on Human Rights, 2008.
Director
20 short films about human rights.
Producer
Em Chengdu, na China, uma fábrica estatal de armamento militar é demolida para dar lugra a um prédio com vários andares onde serão construídos apartamentos de luxo. Com relatos de trabalhadores sobre suas vidas e a fábrica, o filme trás três gerações de histórias que mostram como os tempos mudaram.
Writer
Em Chengdu, na China, uma fábrica estatal de armamento militar é demolida para dar lugra a um prédio com vários andares onde serão construídos apartamentos de luxo. Com relatos de trabalhadores sobre suas vidas e a fábrica, o filme trás três gerações de histórias que mostram como os tempos mudaram.
Director
Em Chengdu, na China, uma fábrica estatal de armamento militar é demolida para dar lugra a um prédio com vários andares onde serão construídos apartamentos de luxo. Com relatos de trabalhadores sobre suas vidas e a fábrica, o filme trás três gerações de histórias que mostram como os tempos mudaram.
Director
An ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two couples of men and women, former lovers, meet again one year later. The yesterday's breath of youth is still perceptible in their conversations. Is it still possible for us to love? Does youth really have an end? Like the networks linking the old city, what type of ecological existence does their culture require? Written by Venice Film Festival
Writer
Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow commuter who she observes regularly. While the two never speak to one another, the girl captures her appearance and life changes during the years through various means such as photos and drawings.
Director
Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow commuter who she observes regularly. While the two never speak to one another, the girl captures her appearance and life changes during the years through various means such as photos and drawings.
Director
Observations of three varied corners of China’s garment industry: workers in a large-scale production line factory; a designer who rallies against the mass-machine-production of clothes and has created the eponymous hand-made collection called ‘Useless’ (Wuyong) for Paris Fashion Week; and finally the simple life of increasingly out-of-work tailors in small town Fengdang.
Himself
Leading Chinese Sixth Generation filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns home to Fenyang in Shanxi province after winning the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for Still Life (2006). The experiences of his childhood, the people he grew up with, and the changing landscape of his home town gave Jia the inspiration to make his first films. The documentary forms a poignant inquiry into the past of the director's life and Chinese society at the same time.
Director
Jia Zhangke travels with painter Liu Xiaodong from China to Thailand as they as they meet everyday workers in the throes of social turmoil. Liu Xiaodong is well-known for his monumental canvases, particularly those inspired by China's Three Gorges Dam project. Jia Zhangke visits Liu on the banks of Fengjie, a city about to be swallowed up by the Yangtze River. The area is in the process of being "de-constructed" by armies of shirtless male workers who form the subject of Liu's paintings. Liu and Jia next travel to Bangkok, where Liu paints Thai sex workers languishing in brothels. The two sets of paintings are united in their subjects' shared sense of malaise in the face of the dehumanizing labor afforded them.
Screenplay
A antiga cidade de Fengjie ficou submersa para a construção da represa de Três Gargantas, no rio Yangtze. Han Sanming é um trabalhador de minas de carvão que viaja até o local para reencontrar sua ex-mulher, a qual não vê há 16 anos. Simultaneamente Shen Hong, uma enfermeira, também retorna a Fengjie, na intenção de procurar seu marido, que não vê há 2 anos. O reencontro com seus esposos trará consequências diferentes para eles.
Director
A antiga cidade de Fengjie ficou submersa para a construção da represa de Três Gargantas, no rio Yangtze. Han Sanming é um trabalhador de minas de carvão que viaja até o local para reencontrar sua ex-mulher, a qual não vê há 16 anos. Simultaneamente Shen Hong, uma enfermeira, também retorna a Fengjie, na intenção de procurar seu marido, que não vê há 2 anos. O reencontro com seus esposos trará consequências diferentes para eles.
Chen Chuan (Francis Ng) is a simple man who seems to be cursed with bad luck all the time. Convinced by a blind fortune teller that he must eliminate the "villain" that is bringing him the ills, Chen vows to kill the person responsible for his misfortunes. But he soon has second thoughts when he suspect that the "villain" is none other than his own wife.
Producer
Han Jie’s feature debut draws on his own experiences growing up in a desolate mining district in northern China’s Shanxi province. A Chinese road movie, Walking on the Wild Side charts a young gang’s continuous flights from one kind of trouble to the next. Mirroring the stark and barren landscape, the film relays the grim story of these delinquents’ dreams of liberty and easy money. Played by nonprofessional actors who are real life troublemakers, the film offers a realism that is at once oppressive, cruel, and sympathetic.
Self
A documentary about the making of Jia Zhangke's film the World.
Writer
A young dancer, her security-guard boyfriend and others work at World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the Beijing suburbs.
Director
A young dancer, her security-guard boyfriend and others work at World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the Beijing suburbs.
Associate Producer
In a future century, after the apocalypse, Gui Dao dynasty controls continental Asia. Zhuai and his younger brother Mian are captured and sent to "Prosperity Camp" for reeducation. They soon discover that the camp's aim is to brainwash people with propaganda. Five years later, there's a change in government and they are free again. Zhuai falls in love for the beautiful Xuelan and together they take her to an old industrial city, now deserted. They get themselves a place to live in an abandoned apartment and try to rediscover the little pleasures of life.
Jia Zhangke
A film about Chinese underground filmmakers who were the first to express their truthful and realistic views on China from 1989 until today. It is also the first film to speak about the Chinese homosexual film scene. The documentary features Chinese intellectuals and directors such as Cui Zi’en, Jia Zhangke, Ju An Qi, Li Yu, Liu Bingjian, Liu Hao, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhang Yuan.
Himself
Meet Wang Yuelun, a young and ambitious Chinese who dreams of becoming a film director. Filmmaker Elisabeth O. Sjaastad follows an eventful year in his quest to fulfill his dream.
Writer
Three disaffected youths live in Datong in 2001, part of the new "Birth Control" generation. Fed on a steady diet of popular culture, both Western and Chinese, the characters of Unknown Pleasures represent a new breed in the People's Republic of China, one detached from reality through the screen of media and the internet.
Director
Three disaffected youths live in Datong in 2001, part of the new "Birth Control" generation. Fed on a steady diet of popular culture, both Western and Chinese, the characters of Unknown Pleasures represent a new breed in the People's Republic of China, one detached from reality through the screen of media and the internet.
Himself
A documentary about Peking in the dawn of the new Millenium. Contains interviews with Jia Zhangke and dj Gaohu
Writer
Inverno, 1979. Na pequena cidade de Fenyang na remota província chinesa de Shanxi, um grupo de teatro apresenta uma peça glorificando Mao Zedong. A vida de Minliang e dos outros camaradas gira em torno das representações e das histórias de amor que acontecem. Na Primavera de 1980, a vida do grupo de teatro sofre mudanças, com a entrada das influências ocidentais. Quando a política do Governo muda, os subsídios do grupo são cortados e a companhia é privatizada. A incerteza paira sobre o futuro do grupo e sobre as relações entre os vários elementos.
Director
Inverno, 1979. Na pequena cidade de Fenyang na remota província chinesa de Shanxi, um grupo de teatro apresenta uma peça glorificando Mao Zedong. A vida de Minliang e dos outros camaradas gira em torno das representações e das histórias de amor que acontecem. Na Primavera de 1980, a vida do grupo de teatro sofre mudanças, com a entrada das influências ocidentais. Quando a política do Governo muda, os subsídios do grupo são cortados e a companhia é privatizada. A incerteza paira sobre o futuro do grupo e sobre as relações entre os vários elementos.
Editor
A fragmentary landscape for a little train station in a suburban area and a bus stop in a mining town. A lonely soldier in his heavy coat, a tired old man, a bubbly young lady, a punk, a woman waiting in the street... From all those different people in these unfamiliar places, we can feel the exhaustion of every life.
Director of Photography
A fragmentary landscape for a little train station in a suburban area and a bus stop in a mining town. A lonely soldier in his heavy coat, a tired old man, a bubbly young lady, a punk, a woman waiting in the street... From all those different people in these unfamiliar places, we can feel the exhaustion of every life.
Director
A fragmentary landscape for a little train station in a suburban area and a bus stop in a mining town. A lonely soldier in his heavy coat, a tired old man, a bubbly young lady, a punk, a woman waiting in the street... From all those different people in these unfamiliar places, we can feel the exhaustion of every life.
Editor
Shows a market where puppies are bought and sold. Several puppies are placed in a cloth bag, and they struggle to break free. One bites through the bag, pokes his head, and is observed in his triumph and then confusion.
Director of Photography
Shows a market where puppies are bought and sold. Several puppies are placed in a cloth bag, and they struggle to break free. One bites through the bag, pokes his head, and is observed in his triumph and then confusion.
Director
Shows a market where puppies are bought and sold. Several puppies are placed in a cloth bag, and they struggle to break free. One bites through the bag, pokes his head, and is observed in his triumph and then confusion.
Producer
O batedor de carteiras de uma pequena cidade chinesa, Xiao Wu, percebe que é rejeitado por todos que conhece quando um ex-companheiro ladrão se casa e não lhe envia um convite. Ele visita um bordel e se apaixona por uma prostituta, o único relacionamento que parece dar certo.
Writer
O batedor de carteiras de uma pequena cidade chinesa, Xiao Wu, percebe que é rejeitado por todos que conhece quando um ex-companheiro ladrão se casa e não lhe envia um convite. Ele visita um bordel e se apaixona por uma prostituta, o único relacionamento que parece dar certo.
Director
O batedor de carteiras de uma pequena cidade chinesa, Xiao Wu, percebe que é rejeitado por todos que conhece quando um ex-companheiro ladrão se casa e não lhe envia um convite. Ele visita um bordel e se apaixona por uma prostituta, o único relacionamento que parece dar certo.
Editor
Xiao Shan, a temporary worker at the Hongyuan Restaurant, has just been fired by his boss Zhao Guoqing. Deciding to leave Beijing and returns to his home in Anyang, he goes to see a series of people from his hometown who have also been living in Beijing-construction workers, train ticket scalpers, university students, attendant, prostitutes-but no one wants to go back with him. Dispirited and confused, he searches out one after another of his old friends who are still in Beijing. Finally he leaves his wild long hair, the symbol of his life in the city, at a roadside barber stand as his offering to Beijing.
Writer
Xiao Shan, a temporary worker at the Hongyuan Restaurant, has just been fired by his boss Zhao Guoqing. Deciding to leave Beijing and returns to his home in Anyang, he goes to see a series of people from his hometown who have also been living in Beijing-construction workers, train ticket scalpers, university students, attendant, prostitutes-but no one wants to go back with him. Dispirited and confused, he searches out one after another of his old friends who are still in Beijing. Finally he leaves his wild long hair, the symbol of his life in the city, at a roadside barber stand as his offering to Beijing.
Director
Xiao Shan, a temporary worker at the Hongyuan Restaurant, has just been fired by his boss Zhao Guoqing. Deciding to leave Beijing and returns to his home in Anyang, he goes to see a series of people from his hometown who have also been living in Beijing-construction workers, train ticket scalpers, university students, attendant, prostitutes-but no one wants to go back with him. Dispirited and confused, he searches out one after another of his old friends who are still in Beijing. Finally he leaves his wild long hair, the symbol of his life in the city, at a roadside barber stand as his offering to Beijing.
Jia Zhangke is starring in his first lead role, appearing as an artist facing a midlife crisis in Cheng Er's Pseudo Idealist.
Screenplay
Explores the turbulence amongst scholars, bandits and local officials following the abolition of the imperial examination system at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Director
Explores the turbulence amongst scholars, bandits and local officials following the abolition of the imperial examination system at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
